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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2000

Peptide nucleic acids: versatile tools for gene therapy strategies.

D A Dean

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Antisense peptide nucleic acids as a potential anti-infective agent.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

D A DeanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA. dean@northwestern.edu

Funding

UNDERSTANDING AND ENHANCING LIFE CYCLE OF CLIENTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASEP60HL038639 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA · PI HAYNES, JOHNSON JR · 1988 to 2002
$3.9M
VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE SPECIFIC GENE THERAPY VECTORSR01HL059956 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA · PI DEAN, DAVID A · 1998 to 2007
$1.8M
DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR TARGETING DNA VACCINE VECTORSR41AI044567 · NIAID · VICAL, INC. · PI DEAN, DAVID A · 1999 to 1999
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NHLBI NIH HHS HL38639NHLBI NIH HHS HL59956NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL059956NIAID NIH HHS AI44567NIAID NIH HHS R41 AI044567
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peptide nucleic acids, or PNAs, are oligonucleotide analogs in which the phosphodiester backbone is replaced with a polyamide structure. First synthesized less than 10 years ago, they have received great attention due to their several favorable properties, including resistance to nuclease and protease digestion, stability in serum and cell extracts, and their high affinity for RNA and single and double-stranded DNA targets. Although initially designed and demonstrated to function as antisense and antigene reagents that inhibit both transcription and translation by steric hindrance, more recent applications have included gene activation by synthetic promoter formation and mutagenesis of chromosomal targets. Most notably for gene delivery, they have been used to specifically label plasmids and act as adapters to link synthetic peptides or ligands to the DNA. Thus, their great potential lies in the ability to attach specific targeting peptides to plasmids to circumvent such barriers to gene transfer as cell-targeting or nuclear localization, thereby increasing the efficacy of gene therapy.

Indexed as

Antisense Elements (Genetics)Drug CarriersDrug Delivery SystemsGene ExpressionGenetic TherapyGene Transfer TechniquesHumansMutagensPeptide Nucleic AcidsAntisense Elements (Genetics)Drug CarriersMutagensPeptide Nucleic Acids

Identifiers

PMID11072107
PMCPMC4403640

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